Forgotten beauties: Joanna Lumley

Believe it or not, but there was a time when Joanna Lumley wasn’t that angry old woman shouting something about Gurkhas. She used to be a real sex kitten back in the 1970s, when she was the sassy successor to Diana Rigg in The Avengers – cleverly rechristened The New Avengers – then she went on to cause a middle-aged ripple in shows like Lovejoy and Absolutely Fabulous, in which she played a posh drunk woman, and everyone fell about laughing. Yes, she really was quite the gal, with an intriguing mix of delicious looks, and a very well-to-do speaking voice. Just lovely.

As ever, there will be no posh totty for the boys without a bit of rough for the girls. Below is Tom Selleck.

Josh has been a writer and journalist for the best part of twenty years and has written for modern staples like FHM and Cosmopolitan and The Daily Telegraph and The Sun. He has also written a small handful of so-so books that you can still buy.